Somehow this author completely skipped philosophy 101... nihilism is an often observed point of view in atheism: There is no existential meaning or commonly sha

Somehow this author completely skipped philosophy 101... nihilism is an often observed point of view in atheism: There is no existential meaning or commonly shared human need to appeal to a universal, unprovable truth. The only meaning that exists in life is the meaning people assign to it. The premise of this book is flawed. Humans are not meaning seeking, humans are meaning assigning. Most of the time, the meaning we assign are logical and reflect reality. Sometimes the means we assign are internally consistent, but do not match reality. And occasionally, we come up with some pure crap. This occurs at both the individual and the cultural levels.